Coming off of Thanksgiving break, all I want to do is go back home at the end of the semester. For me, coming off of a nice visit with my family only makes it harder to come back to AU. Feeling the warm nostalgia of the area I grew up in and having friends and family...
Combining rock and singer-songwriter elements, Julia Jacklin’s album PRE PLEASURE invites listeners to examine their own lives as Jacklin gives a voice to deeply personal yet common experiences and thoughts. PRE PLEASURE, released in August of this year, is Australian...
Three years ago, I received tickets to see Dermot Kennedy at the Upstate Concert Hall, a tiny, whole-in-the-wall venue outside of Albany, New York that prides itself in featuring artists on their way up or on their way down. In the case of Dermot Kennedy, he was on...
Before he was Cannes festival award winner, before he was a critically acclaimed producer, and before he worked with pop juggernauts like The Weeknd and Rosalia, Daniel Lopatin was just some guy in a New York basement apartment playing with a synthesizer. During the...
Nomenclature: 5 Songs For A Week In November Hey folks. Welcome back to another edition of Nomenclature. For this edition, we’re gonna be doing something a bit different. So if you came to read up on a heart wrenching indie track, I suggest checking one of my previous...
Singer-songwriter Ethel Cain, legally known as Hayden Silas Anhedönia, describes the birth of Ethel Cain as a spiritual possession. She put on a handmade white vintage-inspired dress, and Ethel Cain took over her body—commanding her to create dark, eerily beautiful...
A few days ago I was, as many of us have been, listening to the 1975’s “About You” from their most recent album Being Funny In A Foreign Language. There are many reasons to love this song, and I agree with a lot of them: the nostalgia, just the overall sound, and...
I was fortunate enough to interview the one and only Liv Wood, an up-and-coming AU Pop Star. Here is the background, the future, and the reasoning behind this great voice. Liv, a broadcast journalism major here at AU, has always been a part of the music world....
The time is finally here: the end of midterms, Thanksgiving break, and CAPITOL BOOGIE! WVAU returns this year with Capitol Boogie on Friday, November 18th. This year's headliner is indie-folk singer-songwriter Kate Bollinger. For the low, low price of free, you and...
When budding singer Omar Apollo first released his song “Ugotme” on Spotify in 2017, nobody could have predicted his subsequent rise to stardom as one of the most original and inventive new voices in the world of alternative R&B. It would not be until five years...